How to display verses from two different Bible translations on the same slide

See also:

• ​Display Bible verses quickly, the way you want them to be (bilingual, several verses on one slide, etc.)

First method: Systematic bilingual display

This method enables the systematic display of one (or more) additional Bible translations.
Lets consider that you always want to display the French translation under your English translation.

​To set the French Bible as an additional translation that will always be displayed under any other translation:

• Click the French Bible:

• The middle panel now displays the Bible properties.
  Select the highlighted checkbox ("Always dual-display"):

From now on, any Bible verse will automatically be displayed in conjunction with the corresponding verse in this Bible:

To add another Bible translation, repeat the operation.
The order in which the additional translations appear on screen is dictated by their "Position" property:

Save the changes that you did to your Bibles:

Note that per default, VideoPsalm will silently ignore to save changes that you do to Bibles.
You have to first enable this in the options:

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Second method: ad hoc (impromptu) bilingual display

This method enables the ad hoc display of Bible verses in two or more translations.
​The same method applies to displaying song lyrics in two languages.​

Let's display Romans 3:19-24 in the NIV (English translation) and in the Colombe (French translation).

Step 1: Proceed like usual: Select the Bible translation verses by typing their reference into the search field, and add them to the agenda:

Click on the “Bibles” tab, click on the “NIV” Bible and type the reference of the Bible verses to display (Romains 3.19-24) into the search field.

Then click on the “Add” button to add the verse selection to the agenda.

You end up with the NIV Bible verses into your agenda:

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Step 2: Select the second Bible (French Colombe) and then click again on the “Add” button, to add the same verses to the agenda.

Click on the second Bible then click on the “Add” button.

Note: When you select another Bible, VideoPsalm keeps the same selected verses: you don't need to type the Bible reference again.

You end up with two Bible verses selections in the agenda:

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Step 3: Now comes the important point:
​Link the first Bible verse selection (NIV) with the next one (Colombe), like so:

When you display the NIV verses, they now get displayed with the Colombe corresponding verses:

These steps can be done even during the service, as they require only a few seconds and do not interfere with the current presentation progress if you activate the shield icon.

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Optional  To help the people to visually dissociate both translations on the screen, assign a specific style to the additional translation, for example another text color and font.

• Click on the French Bible to select it (or any Bible for this purpose).
  Make sure that the style level is set to "Bible":

Then, select another text color, for example yellow:

Additionally, set the text to italic.
​You will get the following display:

The same principle works for songs:

It is also possible to highlight some words or phrases:

See more details here: How to display Bible verses to your attendance (at the bottom) to learn how to select Bible verses and add them to the agenda.